Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-28
A REIGN OF TERROR.
OUTLAWS CARRYING on HIGH DOWN IN
RANDOLPH.
Buildings Burned and a Murder Attempted by thc
Gang-0thsr Fresh Intelligence From
the Interior.

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Enterprise, asserts that the community IS
at the mercy ola band of OUTLAWS and
cutthroats as reckless and INSCRIPTIONS as
ever disgraced the fair name of any civil
lied country" Proceeding, the writer
says:
'Our citizens dare not tell tell the truth
before a grand jury for fear of being burned
alive or assassinated On the highway, nor
20 out at night, lest they be foully muir
dered. John Mann's barn and Clubhouse
has been burned, together with their con-
tents; our schOOlhouse stove has been car
ried off and the windows smashed. John
Lance was waylaid a night or so ago by
members of the gang. They doubtless in
tended to kill or cripple him, but he saw
them in time to make his escape by max
ing a circuit of several miles through the
woods to get to his home. This was the
second attempt to assassinate him.
The writer makes a strong appeal to the
officers of the law to see that the statutes
are enforced and the people protected.
The Shenandoah Valley railroad is to
have a new iron bridge across the Potomac
river at Shepherdstown to replace the pres
emit structure of wood, and the work was
commenced on Monday last. The contract
was let to the Phoenix Bridge Company, OF
Phpnixville, Pa, and the work is in charge
of Superintendent John Frame. The JOB
is a very big one. The length Of the bridge
is about $50 feet, and from the bottom OF
the river to the railroad track the distance
is ia feet. The bridge is to be OF the pat
tern known rs the Phoenix iron truss, and
the cars will run on the top OF 1t, as Is done
on the wooden bridge. Mr.. Frame has
now at work eighteen experienced bridge
builders, and will hire about thirty more,
working a force of about fifty men. The
work will take from four to i've months,
and it is likely that not II tram Will be
stopped during the replacing OF the bridge.
Beginning on the Maryland side, trestle
work will be built up from the bottom OF
the river, and the trains will run on it
while the old bridge is taken away and the
new one put in place. The work will be
done a span at q time, and rs each is COM
pleted the trestling will be changed to the
next one. The present trestle work on the
MARYLAND side of the river will not be re-
placed with iron, but will remain as it is
for awhile, mt least. The wooden bridge
is only seven years old, but it has about
reached the end of its usefulness. \ hand
some iron bridge will be quite an addition
- Al, ,,x.ar gaanaru of Observation-Disclosures
The Wright-Jenkins nastiness at Hunt
ington, is attracting a good deal of atten-
ton in the lower river counties. Wright
charges Jenkins, a young nan in the en-
ploy of the c. & o. r. Il. Co., with hav-
ing seduced his daughter, n young lady
about eighteen years of age; that he drug
ged the young lady, or gave her wine to
drink, and took her to the house of a
woman of questionable character, and
there, Us is later charged, associated with
his brother George jenkins, accomplished
her ruin. Upon the father of the young
lady hearing of the affair, he armed him
self with u Derringer and sought for
young Jenkins. lie found him i'll Kelly IL
Northcott's clothing store, and ~inaugurated
a fussilade without ceremony. He
cxcitedly fired at young Jenkins and, we
are told, the ball entered his clothing, but
did him no harm. Wright made a second
effort, but was checked by George Smith,
who incidentally appeared in the store,
and in the brief lull in hOstilitics that fol-
lowed, Jenkins succeeded in making his
escape by way Of the rear door. The fol-
lowing day Jenkins he'd Wright arrested
and bound over in the sun of $500 To keep
the peace, but concluded TO leave the city,
and up to this writing has not returned.
On last Monday Wright had George Jen-
kins arrested OH the charge of being aSsoci-
ated with his brother Walter in the de-
bauchery of his daughter. The trial re-
suited in the prisoner being held to an
swer Al indictment before the grand Jury.
Z. p. S%pringstOwn, Deputy Marshal, of
Troy, w. Va, arrived in Grafton last Fri
day evening, having in charge Il prisoner
named Amos BOner, who had been making
and selling liquor without paying Govern
ment license, and left him with Deputy
Sheriff Grimes for safe keeping, while he
took q room at the Central to dream of the
congratulations that would he shOwered
upon him for his brilliant detective work.
But his dream did not materialize. On
Saturday morning he took his prisoner
from the Jail, gave him his breakfast at the
hotel and started for the depot TO take the
train for Parkershurg, but as he was leav-
ing the house he remembered that he had
not taken his morning smoke, and stepped
back inside the door to light his cigar,
leaving Mr.. BOrer for q few seconds by
himself on the outside. 1t was all the
time he wanted; for the Marshal had hard
ly disappeared until he started on a run up
the railroad track toward Fetterman and
has not been heard of since. Mr.. Springs
ton took the train for home 4 wiser il not 4
happier man.
On Tuesday last, Joe Barnes, 4 cologed
boy about fourteen years of age, living ut
Col. W. A. MOrgan's, near Shephardstown,
vas terribly gOred by an Alderney bull be-
longing to the Colonel. 1t is not known
what caused the animal to attack the boy.
4 cOlored man hearing a row lii the barn
yard went to see what it was. lie saw the
boy lying on the ground, covered with
blood and mud, while the angry beast was
goriDg and i~niuring him as much as it pos
sibly could. With a pitchfotk the bull
was driven off and the hoy rescued in an
unconscious state. DE-. 4. 5. Reynolds
was SUMMONED, and found that the youth
was terribly injured. One of his arms was
torn, his head was bruised, there was n
big slsh in his abdomen, and one side Of
his face wa ripped as though the animal
bid gotten a horn in his mouth and gored
ii ont.
The Webster Echo tells of a man in that
legality named Virgin, who landed there
a few months ago from Independence,
Pa. The scamp, for such he proved to be,
paid court to a beautiful and estimable
girl Of that section, and she had promised
to marry him. Somebody's suspicious
were finally aroused, and 4 letter was
written to the young mans former home.
1t brought to light the fart that he had
already a wife and four children now
living in Independence.
Last Saturday evening "Link" Adams,
of Hubbardstown, Wayne county, had q
quarrel with his wife and cursed her. Mrs.
Adams was missing Sunday morning, but
q note was found which stated that her